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By now, President Obama may wish he’d brought Howard Dean into the administration, because the former doctor has become his top left-wing antagonist on health care reform, the Hill reports. Dean has spent the summer advancing his views on the topic, and though the White House is backing away from the public option, he isn’t. “You can’t really do health reform without it,” he said today.

“It might have been a blessing in disguise that Howard Dean was not brought into the admin,” says one progressive activist, “because it has allowed him to be the bully pulpit” for progressives. Analysts note that Dean’s opposition has raised his own profile. “In a sense Dean becomes an antagonist of the president,” said one political scientist. “This is not a blogger somewhere.”

No. We need health care continued AFTER we or our kids get sick. Not the current deal where the insurance company finds a way to drop us.

Caps

Aug 25, 2009 12:41 PM CDT

For your information MrsKKK, I have my own insurance. It sounds like you are only thinking of yourself and the hell with the rest who are uninsured. That's a mighty piss poor attitude. You don't care about your fellow man??? Sounds just like a right wing nut.